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Sculpture Park in Architecture
Art where you least expect it
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An open-air museum
There is always a dreamer at the beginning of everything. For this park among industries on the edge of the city of San Donà di Piave, the dream is that of an entrepreneur, Adalberto Mestre. It was in the early 1990s when, looking out the windows of his company's new headquarters at the desolation of the landscape, he decided there was a need for greenery and beauty. Thus was born the idea of the Sculpture in Architecture Park, a park with no fences and no hours to welcome locals and bring them closer to art.
The first installation
The most difficult thing, Mestre recounts, was getting municipal permission.... The first installation was a work by the great Bruno Munari, then an energetic 84-year-old. "A sculpture for play" (1991), intended for children, where they could sit and climb.
Sculpture and architecture
Later it was the turn of "Abandoned House," a work by Aldo Rossi (1996-2001): a straight and serious facade, with the door open to an interior that "no longer has walls but trees," as the song would say. Inspired by a youthful memory, a house in the floodplain in the province of Rovigo abandoned after the great Po flood. With tiles and wallpaper reframing memories of rooms.
Gaps and antennas among poplars
Walking through the park, one encounters "gates" of various kinds. For example, a yellow crossable sculpture by Bruno Munari ("Passaggio a Nord-Ovest?", 1995): "On the other side is a partly invented nature. There is an avenue of trees arranged with the perspective turned upside down. There is no wolf," Munari reveals. Or Alberto Campo Baeza's white "Flower Gate" (1997), covered by "a million million million very white flowers," or Toni Follina's "Varco" (1999). Between two rows of poplars, then, 3 totemic antennas by Alessandro Mendino ("Triple Monument," 1994) seem to pick up messages from the universe...
The artists of the Park
In alphabetical order: Alberto Campo Baeza, Gabriele Basilico, Riccardo Dalisi, Marco Ferreri, Toni Follina, AG Fronzoni, Sol LeWitt, Riccardo Licata, Alessandro Mendini, Davide Mosconi, Bruno Munari, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Mauro Staccioli, Emilio Tadini.
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